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This summer's Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is the latest of seven films in the long-running series of live-action films based on Hasbro's hugely popular toy franchise; the first since the critically acclaimed 2018 spinoff, Bumblebee; and the first mainline installment since the Michael Bay-directed Transformers: The Last Knight (2017).

On May 15, 1948, the McDonald brothers opened their revamped restaurant in San Bernardino.Over the past 75 years, McDonald's has become the largest fast-food chain in the world.Dick and Mac McDonald came to California to seek opportunities in the movie business and wound up owning a drive-in BBQ restaurant in San Bernardino.

Canadian studio Hemsworth Architecture has completed a mass timber factory wrapped in vertical cedar slats, nestled in British Colombia's Squamish Valley.Hemsworth Architecture created a 2,700-square-metre industrial facility for Leon Lebeniste Fine Furnishings & Architectural Woodworking in the region near Vancouver in 2021.

Bridges are functional and allow us to cross lakes, rivers, and roads, but they can also be creative with extraordinary designs!The different types of bridges include arch bridges, beam bridges, cable-style bridges, cantilever bridges, suspension Bridges, truss bridges, and tied arch bridges.Check out these iconic bridges that are a sight to behold.

Design Council chief executive Minnie Moll and architects Omar Gandhi, Zhu Pei, Olga Bogdanova and Byoungsoo Cho have been announced as Dezeen Awards 2023 judges.Dezeen Awards 2023, in partnership with Bentley Motors, is open for entries.There is less than one month left to submit your project before midnight London time on 1 June and avoid late entry fees.

Saunas are trending on Pinterest and Dezeen has featured some of the best, including a floating sauna in Stockholm and a three-storey, outdoor sauna in the USA.Follow Dezeen on Pinterest and read on to discover the projects.Pinners have been attracted to Dezeen's sauna board.The most popular saunas are inspired by their natural surroundings and have cosy and relaxing interiors.

Mata Architects founder Dan Marks has extended his self-designed home in London, adding a charred wood-clad garden studio using Japanese technique Sho Sugi Ban.The refurbishment of the 19th-century, mid-terrace house also added a rear extension containing a large kitchen and living room.Now called ZigZag House, the extension aimed to add additional spaces to the home the family has lived in since 2009 "for greater autonomy and personal space".

Local studio Splyce Design has designed a light-filled, angled house with glazed corners and a sculptural staircase overlooking the Burrard Inlet in Vancouver, British Columbia.Completed in 2021, the 5,700-square-foot (530-square-metre) residence, known as Yield House, is oriented east-west and responds to the varied setting in both directions.

When he was growing up among the Doukhobors, a pacifist religious group that emigrated to Canada from Tsarist Russia, J.J. Verigin would sometimes arrive home from school to find naked elderly women trying to burn down his family's house.One attempt, in 1969, succeeded, lamented Mr. Verigin, 67, who recently recounted the episode.

With the recent oil price recovery, Calgary has awakened from a long economic slumber, and its new mayor wants to help the city reduce its dependency on oil by becoming a leader in new sources of energy.Image Jyoti Gondek, who became Calgary's mayor in 2021, believes her city's ethnic diversity helps it grow.Credit...Amber Bracken for The New York Times Jyoti Gondek has a Ph.D. in urban sociology, was a member of the city's planning commission and a city councilor.

Federal and provincial privacy authorities in Canada are pursuing a joint investigation into OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT, after receiving a complaint about the firm's disclosure of personal information.A statement on Thursday said provincial authorities in Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec have joined the investigation launched by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada in April because the issue affects people across the country.

TORONTO - Canada announced Monday it is banning TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices, reflecting widening worries from Western officials over the Chinese-owned video sharing app.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it might be a first step to further action or that it might be it.Are you on Telegram?

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau answers questions at an announcement in Mississauga, Ontario, on Monday, February 27, 2023.Frank Gunn (AP) Canada announced Monday it is banning TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices, reflecting widening worries from Western officials over the Chinese-owned video sharing app.

Four people were killed and dozens of others were injured after a bus rolled over on an extremely icy highway in British Columbia on Christmas Eve, the authorities said.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the bus crashed around 6 p.m. local time on Highway 97C east of Merritt, about 170 miles northeast of Vancouver.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that online police investigations targeting adults looking to have sex with children do not constitute police entrapment.In a rare 9-0 ruling, the top court dismissed the appeals of four men convicted of child sex offences: Ontario residents Corey Daniel Ramelson, Muhammad Abbas Jaffer, Erhard Haniffa and Temitope Dare.

Ontario is getting $121 million to fight gun crimes and gang violence as part of a $390 million investment from the federal government.Minister of Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino will make the announcement at Peel Regional Police headquarters in Mississauga on Monday along with Ontario Solicitor General Michael Kerzner.

Toronto has updated its 14-month-old decriminalization request to the federal government, clarifying it wants a Health Canada exemption to cover all drugs for personal use, and that the exemption should extend to young people as well as adults.The city's updated submission to its initial January 2022 request asks the federal agency to go further than the exemption it recently granted to British Columbia under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

The federal government has stopped shipping rapid COVID-19 antigen tests to provinces as millions are set to expire within the year, and experts say the once-essential tool has lost its importance in the pandemic.There are 90 million rapid tests in the federal inventory, Health Canada said in an email.

Four sea otters that washed ashore on the California coast died from an unusual parasite that scientists warn could possibly infect other marine wildlife and humans.There are currently no known infections of the Toxoplasma gondii strain among humans, according to a study published Wednesday from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and UC Davis.

A killer whale swims with her calf.(AP)LONDON - Orca whale mothers sacrifice so much energy parenting and feeding their male offspring that it drastically reduces their chances of raising another calf again,a new study has found.Male killer whale children were already known to be needier than their female counterparts, demanding continual feeding by their mothers - who bite salmon in half and share it with their male sons, even after they are fully grown.

A new study finds that orca mothers still feed their adult sons.It's a bond that may come with costs, researchers say.David K. Ellifrit/Center for Whale Research / NMFS research permit #21238 Twenty years ago, in the waters off the coast of Washington State and British Columbia, an adult female killer whale (dubbed K16 by those who know her well) gave birth to a son, K35.

OTTAWA An Indigenous group in Canada announced on Wednesday that ground-penetrating radar had located what it said appeared to be the remains of Indigenous children on the grounds of a former school in northwestern Ontario, the latest in a series of similar reports that have been jolting Canada over the last two years.

I love to bring any kind of diversity I can into this column, and this week we're doing it with a mix that includes the USATF 50k Road Championships, the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, and ski mountaineering's Pierra Menta two-person race.USATF 50k Road Championships - East Islip, New York
The championship event was again held on a ten-loop course at Heckscher State Park, and with a $3,000 cash purse that sent $500 to each winner.

Saturn has regained its crown as the planet with the most moons in the solar system, just months after being overtaken by its fellow gas giant Jupiter.The leap-frog comes after the discovery of 62 new moons of Saturn, bringing its official total to 145.Jupiter, which added 12 moons to its tally in February, has 95 moons that have been formally designated by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

The Toronto Maple Leafs announced a trade on Monday morning.The Toronto Maple Leafs acquired forward Dryden Hunt from the Colorado Avalanche in exchange for forward Denis Malgin.Hunt is a 6'0, 193 lbs.forward from Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada.The  Leafs will be his fifth team in six years and his third team this season.

Ahhh, to enter life as a royal baby.Such luxury.Such privilege.Such intrigue and bloodlust and loneliness.OK, fine: The last part of that description may not apply to the current generation of British royal children.But it's an apt portrayal of royal family life in Britain over the past 1,000 years or so, when children of the monarchy found themselves isolated, kidnapped, used as marital pawns to foster political alliances, or viewed as dangerous rivals by their own parents.

Novo Nordisk, maker of the weight-loss drug Wegovy, said it would limit supply of starter doses as demand outpaces the company's manufacturing capacity.The supply interruptions aren't expected to affect higher doses of the medicine for people who already take the drug, the company said in a statement posted Thursday on its Wegovy website.

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Mathew Barzal (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson) All of the good work the Islanders had done over the previous three weeks took a bit of a hit over the weekend, losing back-to-back games to a pair of non-playoff teams in the Columbus Blue Jackets and Buffalo Sabres.Regardless, they're still sitting in the top Wild Card spot in the Eastern Conference playoff picture with the Pittsburgh Penguins just one point behind them and having one game in hand and they've done most of the heavy lifting recently without their star in Mathew Barzal by winning nine of their first 13 games since he went down with a lower-body injury on Feb. 18 against the Boston Bruins.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - Andrei Kuzmenko scored his 35th goal, a Canucks franchise record for a first-year player, to lead Vancouver to a 7-2 rout of the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night.The Russian forward, who also had an assist, topped the 34 goals scored by Pavel Bure in 1991-92."Yes, it's good.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia Andrei Kuzmenko scored his 35th goal, a Canucks franchise record for a first-year player, to lead Vancouver to a 7-2 rout of the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night.The Russian forward, who also had an assist, topped the 34 goals scored by Pavel Bure in 1991-92.J.T. Miller, Dakota Joshua, Conor Garland, and Phillip Di Giuseppe also each had a goal and an assist, and Vasily Podkolzin and Sheldon Dries scored for Vancouver.

STATS Record: 11-18-6Streak: W1Goals Leader: Timo Meier (18 G, 16 A)Assists Leader: Erik Karlsson (13 G, 33 A)Power Play: 22.2%Penalty Kill: 84.8%Goals For/60: 3.01Goals Against/60: 3.52Shots For/60: 29.21Shots Against/60: 30.30LINES TBD
STATS Record: 15-15-3Streak: W2Goals Leader: Bo Horvat (24 G, 11 A)Assists Leader: Quinn Hughes (0 G, 28 A)Power Play: 26.6%Penalty Kill: 68.4%Goals For/60: 3.34Goals Against/60: 3.82Shots For/60: 29.71Shots Against/60: 30.10
LINES TBD
How to Watch
Tonight's game will be broadcast regionally on NBCSCA and SNP.

The Ford government announced on Thursday as part of its 2023 budget that it is increasing the number of ailments pharmacists can prescribe treatments for this fall.It's an expansion of the powers the Progressive Conservative government first gave pharmacists in January to help reduce the burden on family doctors, emergency rooms and walk-in clinics.

Agencies that run daycares say they're so short of early childhood educators that they doubt the national program of $10-a-day child care can be delivered to all the kids who will need a spot.Stories abound of daycare centres running at half capacity, asking parents to take their kids out of care for a day or two a week, or even shutting down operations entirely, all for lack of staff.

The number of Canadians filing for insolvency is approaching pre-pandemic levels, according to numbers from the federal Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy.Insolvency rates dropped during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but Michelle Statz, a Saskatchewan-based licensed insolvency trustee with Bromwich+Smith, says that November 2022 saw the highest number of insolvencies since March 2020, the month that saw COVID-19 lockdowns and the announcement of the initial Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB).

New York Islanders' Mathew Barzal, center, celebrates his goal against the Vancouver Canucks with Casey Cizikas, Josh Bailey, Noah Dobson and Alexander Romanov, from left, during the second period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, in Vancouver, British Columbia.(Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP) New York Islanders head coach Lane Lambert maintained the hope that his team can get star forward Mathew Barzal back in the fold by the end of the 2022-23 regular season.

The Rangers are set to kick off their yearly swing through western Canada tonight, and the first stop on the trip will be in British Columbia for a matchup with the Vancouver Canucks.These two teams squared off exactly one week ago at Madison Square Garden as the Rangers earned a 4-3 victory in the most recent rematch of the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals.

Bruins It's the first time in the franchise's history that a goalie has scored.VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - Goaltender Linus Ullmark scored into an empty net in the final minute and the NHL-leading Boston Bruins beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-1 on Saturday might for their sixth straight victory.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - Bo Horvat had two goals and two assists, Spencer Martin stopped 24 shots and the Vancouver Canucks beat the San Jose Sharks 6-2 on Tuesday night for their third straight victory.Ilya Mikheyev had a goal and three assists, and Elias Pettersson, Brock Boeser and Quinn Hughes, with his first of the season, also scored for the Canucks.

SAN JOSE  San Jose Sharks coach David Quinn stopped his team's practice on more than one occasion Wednesday, drilling home messages about proper positioning, battle level, and other defensive fundamentals.A lot of issues had to be addressed after one of the Sharks' poorest defensive performances of the season the night before against the Vancouver Canucks.

SAN JOSE - C.J. Suess initially had planned this week to fly from Abbotsford, British Columbia - where the San Jose Barracuda was playing - to his home state of Minnesota to spend Christmas with his mother and sister, and other friends and family members.Suess's travel plans changed, at least to some degree, after he was unexpectedly recalled to the Sharks on Monday.

California's 2023 salmon-fishing season is off.But wild salmon, always wildly popular with restaurant-goers, will still find its way onto Bay Area menus this year.It's a matter of when, from where and perhaps most important for consumers at what price?After reading the news this week, Mark Matulich of the family-owned Steamers Grillhouse, a Los Gatos mainstay for more than 40 years checked in with his seafood suppliers.

Last May, my wife and I were headed from New York to Valencia, Spain, via Munich, when the first leg of our Lufthansa flight was delayed, causing us to miss our connection.The Munich airport was a chaotic scene of passengers trying to rebook, but we eventually got a flight to Palma de Mallorca and then on to Valencia, arriving eight hours later than originally scheduled.

The National Weather Service's map of warnings and advisories on Wednesday looked like the aftermath of letting a toddler loose with your painting supplies.High wind and winter storm warnings, forecasting wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour and more than half a foot of snowfall in 12 hours, stretched across the U.S., from Texas to Montana and from California to Michigan.

The two dominant national airlines are increasingly focusing less on offering nationwide service and more on their regional strengths as they try to improve their financial performance and also fend off soaring competition.Those pressures are why experts say WestJet is focusing heavily on Alberta, while Air Canada is prioritizing markets in the east, such as Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa.

Leckie studio has completed Camera House in the mountains of British Columbia with dramatic windows and skylights that are meant to frame the surrounding landscape like a camera lens.The single-storey house is clad in dark timber boards, which the studio said helps it blend into its lush forest setting.

OTTAWA Canada said on Saturday that it had agreed to pay 2.8 billion Canadian dollars, about $2 billion, to settle the latest in a series of lawsuits seeking reparations for the harm done to Indigenous people through a system of mandatory residential schools that a national commission called cultural genocide.

More than two dozen The Bay locations across Canada will soon be home to Zellers stores, as the retailer has announced more details of its plan to resurrect the defunct discount brand both online and in physical stores.The Hudson's Bay Company says that later this month, Zellers pop-up shops will open up in 25 Bay stores across Canada.

British Columbia has become the first province to require a three-day cooling-off period for buyers after they've signed an agreement to purchase a home.The government said the new homebuyer protection period is designed to give purchasers more time to arrange financing or home inspections after a deal has been accepted details that were neglected in past sizzling housing markets, it said in a statement.

Legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Ian Tyson performs at the Western Folklife Center during the 28th annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, on Feb. 2, 2012, in Elko, Nevada.Ted S. Warren/AP TORONTO  Ian Tyson, the Canadian folk singer who wrote the modern standard "Four Strong Winds" as one half of Ian & Sylvia and helped influence such future superstars as Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, died Thursday at age 89.

The scent of a man can calm his partner and cause panic in others, according to a small but fragrant body of research.Studies suggest that smell has an impact on sexual selection, and that animals' stress responses are often tied to a mate's odor.But scientists suspect the unique power of man smell specifically comes down to its strength - and women's sensitivity to it.

Architecture studio  Lemay has published a manifesto calling on Canadian studios to unite behind a more radical approach to design that reflects indigenous values and takes responsibility for the country's abundant natural resources.Penned by Lemay's research arm FLDWRK, the Manifesto of Canadian Design argues that architects, designers and researchers across the nation must abandon the "characteristic humility of the Canadian ethos".

Known for being a brand of indestructible coolers, cups and increasingly lifestyle apparel, Yeti has been evolving from a wholesale company to one that markets more like a direct-to-consumer company as it experiments on platforms like TikTok, Pinterest and its own media properties.Instead of doing a year-in-review a la Spotify Wrapped, the Yeti has created a new "Year In Preview" campaign to helppeople plan for 2023.

Canada's economy added 10,000 jobs last month, in line with expectations.(Brian Snyder/Reuters) Canada's economy added 10,000 jobs last month, in line with what economists were expecting, and enough to push the jobless rate down to 5.1 per cent.Statistics Canada reported Friday that several industries added jobs, including finance, insurance, real estate, rental and leasing, and manufacturing, as well as in information, culture and recreation.

First things first, how long are you staying in France?Holiday driving If you're just in France for a short period, such as for a holiday, you will usually be able to drive a vehicle using your usual driving licence.You may also need an International Driving Permit  it's basically a translation of a domestic driving licence that allows the holder to drive a private motor vehicle in any country or jurisdiction that recognises the document.

First things first, how long are you staying in France?Holiday driving If you're just in France for a short period, such as for a holiday, you will usually be able to drive a vehicle using your usual driving licence.You may also need an International Driving Permit  it's basically a translation of a domestic driving licence that allows the holder to drive a private motor vehicle in any country or jurisdiction that recognises the document.